Why Innovation Is Important to Us
Innovation and progress remain a cornerstone of Franklin Templeton’s business and culture. The accelerated pace of technological change and adoption brought on by the pandemic is a salutary outcome as we believe innovation, if harnessed properly, can significantly expand access to economic prosperity to broad swathes of the global population.
Innovation Is Key to A More Inclusive Economy
Harnessing the widespread benefits of innovation will be key to creating a more inclusive and equitable global economy. Our President & CEO, Jenny Johnson, offers her views on innovation and its role in narrowing economic inequality.
Our Digital Wealth Solutions
From including data scientists in our investment teams to partnering with fintech trailblazers, we continue to find new ways of bringing innovative wealth management solutions to the market.
These ground-breaking solutions include the award-winning Goals Optimisation Engine (©GOE). In line with goals-based wealth management principles, the GOE helps investors construct an investment portfolio that serves to achieve a specific goal in a scalable fashion.
Franklin Templeton Fintech Incubator Programme
In search of the next disruptors, Franklin Templeton partnered with EvoNexus in 2019 to sponsor a Fintech Incubator program in the Silicon Valley.
The program is focused on finding and admitting Fintech start-ups in core technology areas that will have an impact on digitalisation of financial transactions, banking and wealth management.
Investments in these frontier technological building blocks will help Franklin Templeton improve client outcomes and potentially expand access to niche alternative asset classes. The videos above show two interesting incubator investments that have emerged from the program.
Franklin Templeton has also partnered with Fintech startup accelerator and incubator, F10 Global Innovation Network Singapore Pte. Ltd. (“F10”), to launch the “FT Singapore FinTech Incubator” program. The program supports promising new startups in Singapore and the region and further strengthens the firm’s leadership and reach in FinTech and innovation in Asia.
Awards
Goals Optimization Engine (GOE): 2021 MMI/Barron’s Industry Award for Disruption
Best Fintech Innovation in Asian Asset Management at Asia Asset Management’s 2022 Best of the Best Awards
Our Partners in Asia
Spurred by the increasingly sophisticated demands of a new generation of investors, Franklin Templeton has made strategic investments in promising FinTech start-ups in the Asia Pacific region and partnered with key players in the digital wealth management space.